"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

"I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me."

"The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart."

"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."

"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."

"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."

"The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist."

"The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart."